The UAE Certificate of Equivalency for high school education is an official document issued by the Ministry of Education. It verifies that a student’s foreign or private high school diploma is academically equal to the UAE's secondary school certificate.
Students from the UAE General Secondary School Certificate system (Thanawya Ammah ) or Applied Technology are not required to apply for a Certificate of Equivalency
Applicants who earned their secondary education certificate from a school outside the UAE must present a Certificate of Equivalency for their secondary education certificate from the UAE Ministry of Education.
Please note that AUS is not involved in the equivalency process or decisions. Issuing of the Certificate of Equivalency is controlled fully by the UAE Ministry of Education.
The first step to apply for your Certificate of Equivalency is registering online at www.moe.gov.ae under MOE Eservices – Service Catalog.
For a detailed list of the requirements and documents needed to apply, visit www.moe.gov.ae and see the Certificate Equivalency section. You may also contact +971 800 51115 or ccc.moe@moe.gov.ae.
Applicants have to prepare and attest all the required high school certificates and transcripts before leaving their home country and/or the country in which they graduated. For information about the required attestations, please see the section Required Attestations.
Applicants who have applied for a Certificate of Equivalency but have not concluded the equivalency process by the time of AUS course registration will be given the chance to register for the first semester, provided that they submit the Certificate of Equivalency before the start of the next semester.
For more information on applying for your Certificate of Equivalency, please watch this video and refer to the required documents here